All The Latest Gerard Gallant News

Keep up to date on all the latest news about the Golden Knights' hiring of Gerard Gallant

When Gerard Gallant was named head coach of the Golden Knights on Thursday, it reverberated throughout hockey.

Perhaps that's just what happens when an NHL team hires a recent Jack Adams Award nominee as its first-ever head coach.

Below we've set up a hub for all of the news surrounding Gallant's hiring.

Seatch for assistant coaches progresses

For Gerard Gallant, one of his first orders of business after being hired as Golden Knights coach is hiring the remaining spots on his coaching staff.

Receiving tremendous interest for positions with the team, while balancing a month where he'll serve as assistant coach for Canada at the World Championships and be moving to Vegas with his wife, Gallant recently made use of a drive from Florida to Prince Edward Island to evaluate candidates.

Gallant optimistic about the available talent pool

The Golden Knights will not be Gerard Gallant's first experience with an expansion team. That came 17 years ago, when he was hired as an assistant coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

At the time, with both Columbus and the Minnesota Wild entering the NHL in 2000-01 after the Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators joined the prior two years, the pool of players available for expansion teams was extremely watered down.

As a result, it took most of these franchises years to become contenders; two, the Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets and Columbus Blue Jackets, have still never won playoff series.

But having been through the most recent expansion and surveying what lies ahead for the Golden Knights, Gallant is highly optimistic that Vegas won't suffer the same fate during its early seasons as its expansion predecessors.